Re: [Critical-Realism] Breaking news:Copernican breakthrough in thesocial sciences

["Tim Murphy" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Where is my copy Fred?

Fred?

Talk to me please fred, fred...

Let me be the first to touch the hem of your cloak, please... 

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Hartwig
Sent: 22 June 2007 18:41
To: Continuation of the Spoon Bhaskar List
Subject: [Critical-Realism] Breaking news:Copernican breakthrough in
thesocial sciences

Hi all,

I have now had the opportunity to read the full text of Fred Zaman's 'A
Critical-Realist Theory of America' and have no hesitation in announcing
that I have changed my mind about it as completely as Fred changed his when
he converted from postmodernism to critical realism. It puts forward a
comprehensive Marxist critical realist analysis of the course of US history,
underpinned by a qualitatively new CR systems-theoretical approach to the
study of the sociosphere, which absents the absence in our consciousness of
class struggle and a capitalist conspiracy at the level of real transfactual
mechanics which has dominated America since the mid-seventeenth century,
thus serving as the basis of a new and truly radical and speedy vanguard's
way forward to a 'new American Revolution'.

The theory is unquestionably itself a revolutionary break-through. Fred
himself has hailed it as a Copernican Revolution in the social sciences, but
this is far too modest. Having effectively deconstructed Newtonian physics
in his postmodernist phase (itself a truly Copernican achievement), Fred now
reconstructs it as the basis of an entirely new philosophy, social theory
and theory of geo-history. Only a Newton, Marx, Freud and Einstein rolled up
into one could carry off such an achievement. Throw away your Bhaskar and
read Zaman.

On the basis of this stunning performance we can confidently expect the
meteoric rise of our man Nostromo (deep entrist) through the ranks of the
United States Air Force. Critical realism will then be truly in command of
the intellectual high ground. Yea!

Mervyn
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